Head Of Engineering (bfg/vam)

Job Title

Purpose of the Role: To lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.

Accountabilities:

• Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organizational objectives.
• Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management and task prioritization to ensure the successful delivery of solutions within scope, time, and budget.
• Mentor and support team members' professional growth, conduct performance reviews, provide actionable feedback, and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Evaluation and enhancement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimize team productivity.
• Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.
• Enforcement of technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.

Director Expectations:

• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes are in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others. All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Lead and Manage Delivery:

• Lead and manage delivery across multiple programmes of work that impact the Digital Client Reporting Application (CLR), using the latest technology and methodologies, to deliver for the Corporate Bank.
• Deliver technology solutions from inception through to implementation/closure. Work with programme AEs to ensure the right client and technical/architectural outcomes are achieved.
• To help conceive, design, develop & deliver innovative IT solutions to provide enhanced customer experience for corporate digital banking clients.
• To lead components of system engineering activity for applications / products across the end-to-end software development lifecycle.
• Lead the engineering development teams responsible for building and maintaining digital applications/services.
• Accountable for the quality and robustness of the digital applications and platforms.
• Establish and lead a team to deliver and maintain broad set of Digital Experience systems.
• Accountable for delivery of business outcomes for Digital CX and work closely with business stakeholders to grow new revenue through digital relationship with clients.
• Ownership of customer journeys for corporate clients.

Key Accountabilities:

• Experience building world class software and building and managing high performing software development teams
• Lead engineering team in the development and support of strategic reporting application and mobile application for corporate clients
• Expertise in Java stack, spring boots, front-end technologies (Angular & React), Micro-services, ETL, DevOps tools and Cloud Platform
• Deep dive into product design and provide engineering solution in line with industry standard
• Proven ability to build effective internal relationships
• Experience in conceiving test strategy (approach, E2E testing and Automation) and implement it portfolio wide
• Ability to collaborate across teams to deliver complex systems and components and evaluate code for performance, understand key code metrics and take design decisions
• Knowledge of DevOps and CI:CD
• Experience of participating as a member of an Agile development team
• Experience building critical software with 24x7 availability, high performance and resilient
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to manage upwards and downwards, working closely with senior business leaders
• Experience of managing business change/transformation challenges
• Strong leadership skills with evidence of managing large teams across a range of disciplines and locations
• Fully up to date with developments in individual area of expertise and will be expected to keep abreast of emerging technologies and potential for application within the Bank.
• Ability to negotiate and solicit engagement at all levels of the organisation, and strong experience of working with senior stakeholders.
• Guiding the team on how to get the most out of self-organization.
• Governance and compliance policies, standards, and procedures required to fulfil role e.g. data security, records management.